Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Ian Malone]

On 13 March 2013 12:46, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 12:26 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> -  (Nobody explicitly stated this, but) Displaying information geared
>>> towards power users by default is intimidating / confusing to
>>> less-knowledgeable users."
>> I'd call this to be an urban legend. A boot menu is self-explanatory,
>> even to new-comers.
>>
>> It may baffle them when they see it for the first time, but will very
>> soon get used to it.
>
> No, a boot menu is not self-explanatory, and no, this is not an 'urban
> legend.' How do you even come up with associating the term 'urban
> legend' to statement saying that a complex screen is confusing to casual
> computer users? That's like calling Fitts' Law an 'old wives' tale!'
>
> I have taught multiple classes of teenage and pre-teen students using
> Fedora Live USB keys. This necessarily involves having to guide them
> through using syslinux (which is very similar in appearance to grub) to
> boot their system, I can say from actual experience that:
>
> 1) The boot menu was not self-explanatory, and the students had a lot of
> questions about what stuff on the screen meant.
>

Then you have good students. Are teens and pre-teens fedora's main
target audience now? I'm really not sure what it is anymore.

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